The Magic Time Clock

I need a Magic Clock, anyone care to share? Everyone knows the saying "Time Flies" and to me this has been occurring all too often lately! I'm pretty sure the last we talked I was informing you that I was pregnant, and half-way done to be exact. Well, now we are half-way into the first year of that said baby's life! She's 6 months old!!! And beautiful and loving and cuddly and squishy, all the wonderful things babies are supposed to be. I've now come to the point in my life where I have a 1st grader, a Pre-K'er and a 6 month old. Oh. My...

Life is barreling us over at the moment, we've finished up school, hence the 1st grader and Pre-K'er, we are taking on a kitchen remodel due to start in T-minus 3 days and Summer, which brings it's own challenges with softball, vacations, camps and whatnot. So I'm going to take a moment and live in the moment...

Josephine is beautiful and wavering on that bubble between wanting to be so grown up and yet still wants to hide behind her mama's legs. I love her sincerity and open heart. That girl is by far better than me.

Meredith is enchanting and her mind is racing with logic and humor and independence. That girl is hysterically funny and devastatingly dramatic. I love her inquisitive nature and am in awe and wonder of the women she'll be one day.

Norah is loving and needy in that sweet baby way. I look into her eyes and wonder if she'll be like her sisters or carve her own path. I strive to be everything she needs and I live to hear her baby giggles.

Love unconditionally...
T~

You didn't know???

So, it's been awhile...yeah, sorry about that. I really do have the BEST intentions to blog my life away however sometimes I find that LIFE gets in the way! But recently I've been in a very bloggy, crafty, pinning, nesting mood. I'm pregnant you see, oh you didn't know? Well, we are half way! And super excited about it, which probably plays into the whole bloggy, crafty, pinning, nesting mood I've been in :) My house looks better for it but I'm afraid my husband doesn't (him being the worker in all of this) and my sewing "area" doesn't either. Which I use that term lightly at the moment because my sewing "area" has become a project! I have not had a permanent space to set up my sewing machine since, well since I got it 5 yrs ago. It sits lovingly in it's box until I bring it out to use it then it goes back. But I've started accumulating sewing and crafty items for projects and they seem to not have a place either. SO! I've brilliantly decided that in our basement where my husband has kept our old computer and "desk-ish" supplies have got to go and my new sewing "area" will have a new home, a permanent one!

So, I wanted to make my first post in quite some time a very exciting before and after! I'll post pics once I have everything finished and hopefully you'll be amazed and in awe of my re-organizing skills, for such a small space. I make that claim lightly... :)

More to come!

An Easter Gift

In light of this Easter weekend I wanted to tell you about a sweet baby boy that I never got the privilege of knowing but definitely got the privilege of loving. My very first nephew, John Benedict was born on January 19th, 2006, he lived for an amazing 30 minutes, enough time love his mommy and daddy before he left to be with Jesus. Never failing to let his mommy and daddy know that he is still watching over them and loving them a far. Now with a baby sister Katherine and baby brother Jacob and one on the way, he spreads his love and joy through each of them! God's miracle of children never ceases to amaze me, though sometimes I don't always understand I know God has a plan.

I am thinking of and loving you today John Benedict. All my love to you Michael, Lindsay, Katherine, Jacob and Baby Mazouch this Easter weekend!

T~

Do you have chocolate milk?

Ok, so I have a very amusing story regarding my 3 year old. We went to Manhattan over this past weekend to visit some friends, a much needed visit with the Peschels. They have a 4 year old little boy and a 6 month old little girl. Now first let me say that my oldest daughter and this little boy are sure they are going to be married. They searched for rings all weekend!

So, my 3 year old was on my lap after baths on Saturday night, I was brushing her hair and my girlfriend was breastfeeding her baby girl. Meredith look curiously at Patty and asked her what she was doing? Patty replied "I'm feeding Ellen", "with what?" asked Meredith, "mommy's milk" said Patty. Meredith continued to look perplexed and then proceeded to ask her after much contemplation "do you have chocolate milk?"...you can imagine mine and Patty's surprise and then laughter ensued hysterically! I absolutely love how their little minds work and how innocent her question was, you could see her little wheels turning :) Their innocent hearts have a way of accepting things to no end.

But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." Matthew 19:14

T~

My Love-Hate Relationship with.....Dinner!

I know this sounds funny to some people, "How can you hate dinner?" Well let me just explain myself...

I love to come home and cook dinner, creating things for my family to try, the old faithfuls they always ask for and experimenting with new recipes is fun for me. However I won't lie, sometimes those recipes are a flop...I'm working on that! I love when my family can sit down at the table together and enjoy a meal and my girls say "this is the best meal ever mom"...they say that often...wink, wink :) Side note, why do we say wink, wink, when in all actuality we only wink once?? Anyway, that's a great thing coming from a 5 1/2 year old and one really picky 3 year old. But getting to hear about their day and my husbands day and to just basically bask in the glow of family is so wonderfully fulfilling to me.

Now for the other side of this relationship...

I hate when my family scatters from the table to run outside and play a little bit longer, when my husband says "but my show is on babe" or worse yet we have somewhere to be and need to cut our family dinner short. And then there's the clean-up. You know my husband has "man" things to do outside or in the house somewhere that only he can do so that he can get out of helping with the dishes or putting the food away. Now I can't say too many bad things regarding him, he does help clean the table off most evenings. But then it's rush, rush, rush to get baths and clothes out for the next day and bedtime books and then my day is over...and we start all over the next day.

Blessed with every moment I have with my family I'll try and forgo anymore negativity in this post and say....tomorrow is another day and the weekend is only days away!

T~

What do you want to be when you grow up?

It's one of those days, the kind that seem to drag on forever. Have you ever had one of those days? That's rhetorical, I know you have...I need a plan, a goal a milestone to reach to let me know that I think my life is and was worth something. I don't want 20 years to go by and look back and regret what my life was, what I did or did not accomplish. I want to have made a difference. There are many people that are great at a lot of things and some make beautiful careers out of these things, I want to be one of those people. The ones that know that they are making a difference because they believe in what they are doing!


My daughter, Josephine changes her mind all the time with what she wants to be when she grows up. Some days it's a butterfly engineer but most of the time it's a cowgirl. I hope that works out for her :) I remember thinking I would be a brain surgeon, mostly because my dad wanted me to be and I thought that sounded good...and now when my daughter asks me what I want to be when I grow up I coyly mention "a mommy" and she laughs and tells me "you already are a mommy, you have to pick something else" so I say a book reader, that's a real career right? And she once again laughs at me and tells me to pick something better.


"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." -Jeremiah 29:11


I have to believe that the Lord will lead me in the direction that he has set forth for me, that he knows my strengths and weaknesses and that my future is in his hands. I will have faith. Whether I'm to be a working mommy or a stay at home mommy, he will guide me down the path he has set forth for me.



Sometimes I need faith just to believe...

Faithful to the Core

I have one follower.


I know I hardly ever write, and I know that I don't have that many posts, I have one follower. Let me just tell you about this one follower. She is amazing, she is kind and loving and selfless and I need her probably more than she needs me. She holds me up in ways she probably doesn't even know. I've leaned on her for so many years that to not have her would be detrimental to my health. She is wise and forgiving and beyond caring for her family. I'm not sure when the tables turned and I started admiring her more than myself. Probably not a difficult task. It is my sister. I am the older sister and can always remember trying to be the more mature one, the wiser one, the one who knew all the answers. Well I don't have them all...and I find myself going to her and asking her questions because I know she'll have the right answer for me.



She has loved me through thick and thin, sickness and pregnancies and health. Sounds a bit like a marriage doesn't it? However she is not allowed to get rid of me, ever! When I think of my best friends it might sound bad but I don't think of her, because in my mind she's more than that, she's my sister and that encompasses being a best friend, a sister, a mediator, a supporter, a devils advocate and so much more. She's part of my life line and it's sad and unhealthy but true...






Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
Deuteronomy 31:6





I have one follower...and that means the world to me!